Drug Could Help Diabetics
Hold the Disease in Check

Experiment Uses Antibody to Disarm
The Cells That Assault Pancreas

What if diabetics could put their disease into suspended animation and preserve the ability to secrete insulin, reducing the need for shots and cutting the risk of long-term complications?

That is the hope being held out by researchers at Columbia University in New York and the University of California at San Francisco in a report showing that a dozen newly diagnosed young people with type 1 diabetes held their disease in check for as...